Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-12
WHAT THE TORIES ARE DOING,
Great Efforts in the Commons to Defeat
Grimes Act Amendment.
SOME CONCESSIONS GAINED.
The Anti-lrish Press Endeavor to
Belittle O'Bricn's Mission and Urge
That He BE Refused the Privi-
lege of Speaking

What Tories Are Doing.
tCopy,origM 1887 by Jtmes Gordon Bennett1
LONDON, May Ill New York Herald
Cabe-Specal to the BEE. THE torres All
making much ado over the factousess of the
Irish members of the sixteen-hours session on
Monday, that of yesterday and the continu-
ing one of to-day. Yet their struggles are ac-
complshing much. Once, lately, the speaker
has refused to apply the cloture, saying that
it would cut off discussion on six pending
amendments. This was a virtual acknowl-
edgement of their importance. The
Irish amendments to the crimes
bill are making fair progress.
Secretary Balfour, with, of course, some eX-
! aggeration, asserted that only eleven lines
of the bill had been disposed of in tour days.
lie forgets that he and his colleagues are
| mainly responsible for the manner IN which
| some amendments have been wrangled oyer.
| The nationalists, from the first, have asked
the ministers to state what changes they
| would accept but instead OF answering in
straightforward manner, they invariably
| fenced with their opponents and so provoked
| the loquacity they professed themselves anx-
| ious to prevent.
| HOME RULE CONCESSIONS.
AS has been pointed out in the house, there
| 10 JuSlluCdtlOu lOI llc L ulHtllltcs
tactics which brought about the altered as
| pect of the eleven lines referred to. They
| have been changed very materially in phra-
seology, and the benefit which will thereby
be secured to the Irish is expected to be enor-
| nous. These ADVANTAGES are still accruing.
| No matter how much the ministers object at
| first, they invariably end by cOnceding some
thing. The home rulers are delighted, of
| course, with their success and
| encouraged to new struggles. The
| proceedings in this direction are
instructive Point after point has either
been reluctantly conceded or withdrawn on
the understanding that discussion should be
allowed at more convenient stage of de-
bate. While this state of affairs exists, and
while the opponents of the measure are
striving to prevent its becoming an instru-
ment of torture, 1t is difficult to conceive
what excuse the government will give for
putting on the gag more vigorously or for
getting rid of amendments without discus
sion at all.
| TIE PROGRESS MADE.
ut is important therefore. for Irish-Amer-
icans," said a liberal member of parliament
to me to-day, "to fully understand the pro-
gress that the hand-tO-haDd fight which now
Healv, then O'Connor and Sexton, are max
ing at every parliamentary blow, and well
did OBrien, in his spirited speech at hls re-
ceptiOn as cabled to-day from New York, say
that the American support of our cause and
of our leader-Parnell-ha brought victory
within sight"
COMMENTING ON o'BRIEN.
BY the way, several papers have long spec
ials from New York about O'Bren's pro-
gress. These cables are made the object of
newspaper comments. The principal leader
this evening of the tory st. James GaZ Zette
has for a heading, "Mr. O'Bren's Tour. -
The Gazette rejcices over the behavior
of the passengers toward ''the propagation
of sedition and disorder" as it calls it, and
toward this "amateur in treason" 1t char
! acteriZes OBren's tour as IAN outrageous
: attempt to bully us into surrender" The
Gazette suggests: '1t might be expedient
; even if it is cowardly, to buy Off a rufaT
with brbe, but it would be the height of
: folly to pay blackmal with the uncertainty
that the same contortionist will confront yol
ten PAGES further along the road with a new
, request to stand ana deliver"
THE GAZETTE ADVISES ARREST.
The Gazette suggests that the Canadian
. government arrest O'Br;en. These are IT.
! words: "Mr. O'Brien's tour seems calcu
, lated to lead directly to an Irish rebellion in
Canada, and perhaps to fenian raids beyont
ment decides to avert this risk by refusing
to allow the orator to hold his meetings, the!
would certainly not be going beyond theil
} rights. No government though we seem t.
, have forgotten it here, is bound to permit re
: bellion to be preached openly"
4 TORY SHEER.
= The tory Standard sneerS at O'Brien'S re
! ceptiOn and his tour. This is how |
= = chuckles: His voyage, to use the gentl
r form of the New York Herald, was not on
0 of unmixed pleasure"
: AN ATTEMPT AT HUMoR.
= The tory Globe heads its long leaders thus
0 "O'Brien the Brave" and affects to groy
h humorous over his reception 1t says: "H
y was like another William who stumbled an
T. fell at revensey." 1t forgot to continue tn
application any further and to add that thi
William was soon surnamed "The Con
querer." Referring to the steerage cheer
J. | for Gladstone, the Globe eXults over the fac
!. thot his name was thus banded in an OF
y jectlonable row and was set up in opposition
3 to the queens name when calls were mad
Q for cheers for her majesty.
:. WHAT GOSSIP SAYS.
g How Canada will treat o. Brien is the pr,
y vailing topic of conversation in the lobDie
d of the house of commons and in the politics
}. club. This evening [ was assured by go,
y ernment official that the cabinet was i
:, cipher correspondence with the Dominic
k government about OBrien and that it wa
d probable that he would be proclaimed an
g his meetings stopped. This is on the theor
u that Lansdowne stands in the place of I'll
queen and that to denounce him is seditou
s. "ENGLlSH ROWDYIsM."